Press Room

September 2011

The pink treadmills in the Campus Center will raise raise funds for breast cancer research. Manufacturer Cybex International will pay 10 cents per mile for every mile logged on the new pink 770Ts in October, National Breast Cancer Awareness month.
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The UWG Opera Workshop presents “You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown.”
Dr. Larry R. Frazier, music professor, directs the show, which runs on
Thursday, Oct. 6, at 8:15 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 8, at 2 p.m. and 7:30
p.m. The show will be at Kathy Cashen Hall Recital Hall in the
Humanities Building.

The Run for UWG, a 5K run on the University of West Georgia campus
that benefits the school’s scholarship fund, will feature a new race
course when runners of all ages converge at the UWG Athletics Complex,
on Thursday, Oct. 6.

"The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" will have you laughing
out of your seat from Oct. 5th – 8th at 7:30 pm and Oct. 8th and 9th at
2:30 pm in the Townsend Center for the Performing Arts. There will also
be a Community Preview Oct. 4 at 7:30 pm. Guest tickets are $10 and
seniors are $7.

Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, who led recovery efforts in the wake of
Hurricane Katrina in 2005, will speak about leadership and preparedness
in the 21st century at the University of West Georgia Coliseum on Sept.
20 at 7 p.m. EST.

Honoré’s
address is free and open to the public and is part of UWG’s Richards
College of Business BB&T Lectures in Free Enterprise series.

The IMPACT (Improving Motivation, Performance and Attitudes of Children
and Teachers) program is pleased to sponsor Penny Sconzo’s presentation
entitled “Color, Calories, and Current” for the community on Friday,
Sept. 30 from 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, who led recovery efforts in the wake of
Hurricane Katrina in 2005, will speak about leadership and preparedness
in the 21st century at the University of West Georgia Coliseum on Sept.
20 at 7 p.m.

Pieces of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, salvaged after the
9/11 attack and ceremoniously presented to country music singer Alan
Jackson in appreciation of his song "Where Were You When the World
Stopped Turning?" will be displayed at the University of West Georgia's
Newnan Campus on Thursday, Sept. 8, 8 a.m. - 8 p.m., and on Friday,
Sept. 9, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Visitors are welcome.

As the cost for healthcare in the U.S. continues to rise, individuals
and families have become resigned to the annual hike in the premiums
they pay. However, for the coming calendar year, University System of
Georgia employees will see the smallest increase – 5.2 percent on
average – in a number of years.

UWG’s Antoinette Diaz – softball pitcher and math major – spent her
summer fighting fires in Arizona. Not just any fire. She was among the
firefighters who battled the Wallow Fire, the largest in the state’s
history.